Audit Manager – Uganda

The opportunity:
We are currently seeking qualified candidates for an excellent career and leadership opportunity in our Assurance Department. Join our talented and dedicated professional staff to deliver audit solutions to many types of entities.

We are looking for talented professionals with energy, enthusiasm and commitment, who are looking to grow their careers in a fulfilling and rewarding professional environment as Audit Managers. The selected candidates will have a great opportunity to work with a pool of highly qualified and experienced professionals. The right candidates will be team players and committed people managers, with a passion for implementing new approaches and seeing them through from idea generation, testing, to actualisation.

The Assurance Department specialises in delivering high quality and efficient audit and advisory services to a portfolio of clients, understanding the enterprise-wide view of business risk and how this risk can be effectively managed. We use state-of-the-art diagnostic tools to evaluate business processes and controls, and advanced technology in knowledge sharing.

Everything you’ll do will come back to providing exceptional services to our clients. Colleagues and clients from a diverse array of backgrounds will look to you first for answers, so you’ll be a high-profile contact when it comes to resolving complex issues.

As you continue to build your knowledge and experience, you’ll become a credible advisor, influencing clients and engagement teams on resolutions that will shape the future.

Client responsibilities:

• Demonstrate the ability to effectively manage the audit process with appropriate consideration of audit risk issues and accounting technical matters
• .Demonstrate the ability to lead and manage audit fieldwork including liaising with other departments to ensure the smooth delivery of the audit process.
• Review work prepared by junior personnel and report to Senior Managers and/or Partner.
• Demonstrate an application and solution-based approach to problem solving.
• Demonstrate expertise in IFRS and related financial reporting aspects.
• Demonstrate expertise in International Standards on Auditing (ISAs).
• Identify areas requiring improvement in client’s business processes and possible recommendations.

People responsibilities:

• Demonstrate the ability to influence, change and shape actions and behavior, internally and/or externally.
• Organizing teams in such a way that processes, roles and responsibilities are clear and work is efficiently and effectively executed.
• Coach and develop people and support the Firm’s people development programmes.
• Contribute to effective teamwork

Skills and attributes for success:

• Effective leadership
• Proven project management skills
• Exceptional client service
• Excellent communication
• Analytical skills
• Business development and acumen
• Operational excellence
• Right quality and risk management tone
• Negotiation skills
• Collaborative approach to management
• Proficiency in English
• Willingness to travel at short notice

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• A university degree of at least 2nd upper class
• CPA/ACA/CA/ACCA or other equivalent qualifications
• At least 4 years of audit experience, with 1 to 2 years at manager level
• Experience in IFRS and ISA